Spirit setup

Frequently Asked Questions

Power Cards

• Does Fragments of Yesteryear restore the Disease and Beasts added as part of Branch & Claw / Jagged Earth setup on the balanced boards?
  No, since those are not printed setup symbols, unlike the tokens printed on the thematic boards. However, restoring them is the more thematic option, so you're welcome to do that if your group is willing to take the extra time to figure out where the Beasts started.

  If you want to put in a bit more work, the most thematic option is to restore the land to how it looked at the end of setup, including the first Explore and all Spirit, Adversary, and Scenario setup. If you need to add Presence for a Spirit, use their destroyed Presence; if they don't have enough destroyed Presence, add as much as you can. Depending on the exact combination of Adversaries, Scenarios, and Spirits, this may require a good memory or photographs of the starting board state to track variable setup options (e.g., where Ocean's Hungry Grasp put its second Presence).
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Setup

• If a Spirit has multiple legal ways to set up on the island, can it choose the one it likes best?
  Yes, when there are multiple choices that equally meet the setup conditions, the player gets to choose the one they like. For some Spirits, this will only happen on the thematic side or against specific Adversaries/Scenarios.
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• When setting a Spirit on a the thematic map, what happens if the setup instructions are impossible (e.g., adding Presence to a land with Blight when that board has no Blight).
  Either don't start that Spirit on that board or follow the instructions as best as you can, choosing freely when no lands meet the criteria given. [Jagged Earth Rulebook p. 6]

  When choosing freely, use theme as your guide — you're playing on the thematic map, after all!
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Spirits and Innate Powers

• If a Spirit's setup instructions reference the distance to other lands (e.g., Ember-Eyed Behemoth looking for a Wetland adjacent to a Jungle), does this check for lands on other boards?
  Yes.

  Ember-Eyed Behemoth's highest-numbered Wetlands adjacent to a Jungle could be adjacent to a Jungle on another board (e.g., Wetlands F7 adjacent to Jungle D6 in the standard three-board layout).
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